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HONG KONG (Reuters) - A former executive of state-owned China Resources (Holdings) Co. Ltd, a conglomerate of energy, land and consumer businesses in mainland China and Hong Kong, is under investigation, China's top anti-corruption body said. Wang Shuaiting, vice chairman of China Travel Service (Holding) Hong Kong, is suspected of serious disciplinary violations - Beijing's official jargon for graft - during his tenure at China Resources, the China Central Discipline Inspection Commission said in a one-line statement on its website (www.ccdi.gov.cn)

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - More than two-thirds of countries, including many of the world's largest arms traders, have inadequate safeguards to prevent corruption in their defense sectors, a survey by an anti-corruption watchdog said on Tuesday. Germany and Australia are the only countries out of 82 surveyed by Transparency International UK with strong anti-corruption mechanisms, according to what the watchdog says is the first index measuring how governments counter corruption in defense.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (Reuters) - A former senior Bolivian anti-corruption official convicted of trying to extort $30,000 from a Bolivian businessman in Miami was sentenced on Friday to more than three years in a U.S. federal prison. FBI agents arrested Mario Fabricio Ormachea Aliaga, an ex-deputy chief of Bolivia's anti-corruption unit, in a sting operation on August 31 after a meeting with Humberto Roca, the former president of AeroSur, once Bolivia's largest private airline.

Seeking to smooth over a key point of contention in advance of President Hamid Karzai's inauguration this week, senior Afghan officials unveiled Monday what they described as tough anti-corruption measures. With the Afghan leader poised to be sworn in Thursday for a second five-year term, the U.S. and its allies have been putting pressure on Karzai to institute swift reforms or face a loss of international support. Recent days have brought criticism from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, both of whom suggested that aid to Karzai's government could be tied to his efforts to move decisively against corruption.

One of Russia's highest-ranking generals, a hero of the 1991 coup, was forced out of a hospital Wednesday and hauled off to Moscow's notorious Lefortovo Prison for interrogation on corruption charges, military prosecutors said. In a drama charged with echoes of Josef Stalin's purges 60 years ago, Gen. Konstantin Kobets, who defended President Boris Yeltsin during the hard-line communist revolt of August 1991, complained that the Kremlin is making a scapegoat of a sick man. In contrast with the 1930s, however, Yeltsin's anti-corruption campaign is based on well-founded suspicions.

The trial of Vietnam's "godfather" of organized crime ended Thursday with a result even the defense expected: a death sentence for the man whose case captivated the nation with its tales of rampant official corruption. Truong Van Cam, known as Nam Cam, will face a firing squad along with five associates for spinning a web of bribery, gambling and murder that entangled government officials. Outsiders viewed the trial, involving 155 defendants in three courtrooms, as scripted theater that reflected a tug of war between Nam Cam, the government and the Communist Party.

The Police Department's campaign to weed out corrupt officers has been compromised by a burglary at a secret police internal affairs office outside the city. Computer equipment was destroyed and internal affairs files apparently were stolen during the Christmas Eve burglary in a Baltimore suburb. "The possibility certainly exists that this may be an internal matter," said police spokeswoman Ragina Averella. Among the files missing was one involving an officer who was charged in October with planting drugs on a man and then arresting and charging him with drug-related offenses.

The former chief minister of Delhi state was charged Wednesday in a $19 million corruption scandal. He was the 25th politician indicted in a case that has forced seven Cabinet ministers from office. Madanlal Khurana, who resigned two weeks ago when police announced he was liable for prosecution, was accused of taking about $17,650 from a family of industrialists building power plants. Khurana, the highest elected official of the Delhi state government, has denied wrongdoing.

BEIJING, Oct 21 (Reuters) - China's anti-graft authorities have punished eight people at a state-owned rail construction firm for spending more than $100 million on hospitality last year, a disciplinary body of the Communist Party said on Monday. Besides waste and fraud, the country's railway system has been mired in debt from building high-speed lines. President Xi Jinping has vowed to crack down on official corruption, saying he will target high-flying "tigers" as well as lowly "flies.

For Nigeria, a nation long considered one of the world's most unrepentantly corrupt, the last few weeks have been remarkable. First the national police chief, who had recently resigned, was arrested and led away in handcuffs, accused of graft and money laundering. Then the housing minister was fired, charged with selling government houses on the cheap to the well-connected. Finally, the head of the Senate--the third-highest-ranking official in the beleaguered West African country--resigned after being denounced by the president for alleged bribery.